Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1986. House. 7 related planning applications.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crooked-stair-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Chinnor, OX39 4AE
- OS grid reference
- SP 762 025
- Coordinates
- 51.71677, -0.89802
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century. It features a rendered plinth and large timber framing with painted brick infill. The roof is thatched and half-hipped, with a brick ridge stack located to the right of the center, which has a diagonally set flue. The building is two stories high and has a four-window range. There is a 20th-century plank door leading to a 20th-century porch positioned to the left of center. The windows are irregularly arranged and consist of 19th-century casements. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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